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Hacienda Heights, CA | wow Wow, talk about sticking it to the man... | |
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join:2005-03-19 | Re: wow what lawmaker isn't a criminal? | |
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join:2005-03-19 | Re: wow the pirate party truely believes that they are doing nothing wrong. | |
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| Re: wow said by FBGuy:the pirate party truely believes that they are doing nothing wrong. So does NAMBLA. | |
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Baltimore, MD | So does our government as they use the federal reserve to print all money they want, making who ever they please rich. Considering the powers of the world can create money out of nothing but paper, then we should be able to at least create our own crap out of thin air to.... Screw the rich, really your not going to make to many people broking hearted that 50 cent or who ever can't buy that extra Porsche! | |
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join:2005-03-19 | Re: wow the federal reserve is not technically part of the government. | |
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| | | | | |  TechieZeroTools Are Using MePremium
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| said by Mordhem:So does our government as they use the federal reserve to print all money they want, making who ever they please rich. Considering the powers of the world can create money out of nothing but paper, then we should be able to at least create our own crap out of thin air to.... Screw the rich, really your not going to make to many people broking hearted that 50 cent or who ever can't buy that extra Porsche! Stuff like this amazes me. | |
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Banks, OR | said by Mordhem:So does our government as they use the federal reserve to print all money they want, making who ever they please rich. I got news for ya: *EVERY* bank, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York down to the smallest community Credit Union, creates money "out of thin air" in the normal course of operation. That's what banks do: provide liquidity to keep the economy running. They're not simply safe deposit boxes, they create money everytime they write a loan.
It's funny that some Fox News celebrities have dragged up the tired old John Birch Society idea that this is some sort of sinister plot in order to generate ratings. 'guess the educational level of the citizenry is now so low that many people are cluelss of monetary and currency policy that they actually buy it hook line and sinker. Buy gold!!!!!! | |
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| Re: wow said by PDXPLT:said by Mordhem:So does our government as they use the federal reserve to print all money they want, making who ever they please rich. I got news for ya: *EVERY* bank, from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York down to the smallest community Credit Union, creates money "out of thin air" in the normal course of operation. That's what banks do: provide liquidity to keep the economy running. They're not simply safe deposit boxes, they create money everytime they write a loan. That is quite a stretch. A loan has to be backed by actual cash, when the seller cashes the check that money isn't fake its quite real and tangible. | |
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Banks, OR | Re: wow said by SixSpeed:That is quite a stretch. A loan has to be backed by actual cash, when the seller cashes the check that money isn't fake its quite real and tangible. But it isn't. That's the point of a bank; the loans they make are *not* backed up by actual cash; they are backed up the community's faith in the bank and its belief that the bank is a sound one. Utimately, it's backed up by the FDIC insurance that the bank pays for.
If everyone with a checking or saving account in a particular bank showed up at the same time and wanted their money, the bank wouldn't have enough to pay them, and the bank would fail; e.g., that's a "run" on the bank. Banks work because people don't do that; the bank only needs to keep a "reserve" of cash, to cover normal operations, about 10% and determined by gov't regulators. In other words, they loan out about 10x what they take in as deposits. Every bank does this.
This bank-created money is what allows the economy to function; e.g., when the gov't reports on the money supply, only a small percentage of it is actual currancy in circulation. Without this bank-created money we'd be a much poorer country; no one could get a loan to buy a house or a car, or fund a business. As the Big Boy in charge, it's the Fed's job to control how much money is created (primarily by setting the short-term interest rates it allows banks to charge each other). Create too much money and inflation gets out of hand. Create too little and economic growth slows and they trigger a recession. Right now inflation is very low, a sign the Fed isn't "printing too much money". | |
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| said by jca2050:Wow, talk about sticking it to the man... The RIAA and MPAA did this to themselves. They angrily defend and push their outdated business model on people and people kick back. | |
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| | | we need to get the pirate party in the usa to stick it to the mafiaa | |
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1 edit | Nice try If this ever sees the light of day all they will have to do is say child porn is being shared or terrorists are trading bomb making tips for it to be shutdown. | |
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Madison, WI | Re: Nice try said by Corrahn:If this ever sees the light of day all they will have to do is say child porn is being shared or terrorists are trading bomb making tips for it to be shutdown. this is not in the US, this is in sweden......other parts of the world are quite different from here :P | |
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Houghton, MI | Re: Nice try I'm fairly certain that it was an abuse of a CP clause in swedish law that allowed the first raid of Pirate Bay way back when. | |
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2 edits | said by Kayrac:this is not in the US, this is in sweden......other parts of the world are quite different from here :P Not really. Sweden is a signatory of the Berne Convention (full name the ‘Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works’), a multinational treaty to coordinate copyright protections across countries. So is the U.S.A., which is why we've adjusted some of the terms of our copyright laws over the years.
As a country, Sweden has agreed by treaty to protect the rights of copyright owners to about the same degree as other countries. If Sweden doesn't do something about this, I suppose they could eventually get hit with sanctions in the WTO. When IKEA finds out they need to pay tarriffs when shipping into other countries, this will get cut off soon enough. | |
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| FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. | |
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1 edit | hahahahahaha HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
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Beaverton, OR | Good Concept While I definitely wouldn't encourage intentionally thumbing my nose at content holders; I would agree that it would be nice to be on an ISP somewhere that is truely "neutral" and doesn't monitor its users' traffic. | |
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kudos:16 | Bad idea "....run the site from inside the Swedish Parliament."
I can just see it now "Swedish parliament saying we fooled them all," now that they think we are on their side we can nail them all for file sharing. We collect all the IPs fof users and we nail them.
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|  TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
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NYC Metro | Re: Bad idea said by MarkAW:"....run the site from inside the Swedish Parliament." I can just see it now "Swedish parliament saying we fooled them all," now that they think we are on their side we can nail them all for file sharing. We collect all the IPs fof users and we nail them. The Swedish Parliament gives two shits about American law.
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1 edit | I seeez IPeeez. I imagine their IPs will be blocked. | |
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kudos:70 | is it me or is this article's page generation a little off? | |
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| | The mole I smell a mole.
Everyone will enjoy it for maybe 1yr or maybe 2yrs MAX..... Then BANG! | |
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3 edits | Expelled? I'm no expert on Swedish law, but every parliament I've ever heard of has a right to expel members. Unless they win a large plurality of seats, how do they intend to stay in parliament? | |
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NYC Metro |  Freedom Lovin' Swedes
I lived there for six months last year, what a beautiful country! Sure, they're a little socialist, but they sure do understand freedom of information.
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*kewl video, btw, thx.. | |
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| | That's why I switched I support my artist by buying tickets for their tours. That's where most of their income comes from anyways. I don't feel like supporting a large corporation that had nothing to do with the music and giving them my money. I.E. you honestly think the vice president over at interscope really sits in the studio with lets say 50 cent. So until their business model changed I use the new site piratefan.org | |
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